8 school children killed in China bus crash

Eight school children died in a bus crash on China's southern island province of Hainan on Thursday on their way to a school outing, state media reported, in the latest in a string of traffic accidents to fuel public anger. Accidents involving vehicles carrying school children have become a sensitive issue in China after a series of gruesome incidents in recent years. In 2011, a nationwide outcry erupted over the deaths of 18 nursery school children after a coal truck slammed into their overcrowded school van in northwestern China. The tragedy prompted then-premier Wen Jiabao to promise more government funds to improve school bus services, according to Reuters.